Difference between revisions of "Terroir Spring Field Study - WordPress"

Revision as of 15:20, 20 April 2016

Access your site

Your sites have been pre-created based on a site template. To access your site:

login to blogs.evergreen.edu
navigate to My Sites in the upper left for a listing of all sites connected to your login

Writing and Managing your content

Get Published - Pages and Posts
Categories and Tags - all of your posts should be added to a category otherwise they will not be easy to find on your site.
Working with tables in your post
- If you're working on your individual Terroir Journal site, you will need to activate the plugin TinyMCE before you will see the add table option.

Images, video and linked files

Insert an image
Set a featured image for each post.
WordPress built-in image galleries
Instagram Galleries of group hashtags are located in two place:
- Sidebar Instagram gallery is located in Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets in the Home Page Sidebar 2 block
- Instagram Gallery page uses shortcodes

[easy-instagram tag='yourhashhere' ...]

Embed video from Vimeo or YouTube by pasting the the URL link into the content area of your page/post
Link to a file
Audio

Customize Your Site

Recommend Themes

Hueman

This is default theme your site is already set to use. This theme has a flexible Theme Options panel that let's you customize many components of the site including:

page layout
styling: background colors, font, etc.
header logo

Additional themes

If you feel compelled to use a different theme than Heuman, the following themes will work well on mobile devices (they are responsive) and make good usage of navigation (Menus) and widgets so you can design a site where viewers can easily find and interact with your content.

Baskerville (custom header image)
Editor
Hemingway (custom header image)
Ignite
Padhang
Tracks (works best with featured images saved to posts)
Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen

Additional themes may not have Theme Options but can be modified by Appearance > Customize

Sidebars (Widgets)

Sidebar content in WordPress is controlled via "Widgets". Often times if you don't anything to your side bar a default set of "widgets" will appear. You can change this by adding your own widgets.

Widgets - add additional features to your sidebar
Update the Instagram Gallery to display your group's Instagram Feed. See Terroir - Easy Instagram Plugin

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 * Tracks (works best with featured images saved to posts)
 * Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen
 Additional themes may not have '''Theme Options''' but can be modified by '''Appearance > Customize'''